Keynote Speakers

Emeritus Professor at Politecnico di Milano.

Sergio Cerutti, Emeritus Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB) of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He has been one of the founding Members and Chair of the Department of Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, from 2000 to 2006. He has also been the Chairman of the Bachelor (Diploma Universitario 1996-2000) and Master Degrees in Biomedical Engineering (Corso di Laurea 2010-2012), at the same Politecnico. His research interests are mainly in the following topics: biomedical signal processing (ECG, blood pressure signal and respiration, cardiovascular variability signals, EEG and evoked potentials), medical imaging and multimodalities, cardiovascular modelling, neurosciences, regulation and standards in medical equipments and devices. Since 1983 he has taught a course at a graduate level on Advanced Biomedical Signal Processing at Engineering Faculties (Milano and Roma) as well as at Specialisation Schools of Medical Faculties (Milano and Roma). He has been Elected Member of IEEE-EMBS AdCom (Region 8) in the period 1993-1996. He spent one year (1978-1979) at MIT and Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge USA and 3 months (y 2000) at Physics Department of IST (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal) with a NATO Fellowship and on sabbatic leave. He is actually Fellow Member of IEEE, AIMBE and EAMBES and Associate Editor of IEEE Trans BME and Physiological Measurements. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE-EMBS Summer School on Biomedical Signal Processing: he was the local organiser of four Summer Schools held at the Certosa di Pontignano, Siena. He has been Member and later on President of the Ethical Committes of IEO (European Institute of Oncology) and the Cardiological Center “Monzino”, Milano, from 2013 to 2024, as well as Member of the same Committe at the Politecnico di Milano (from 2010 to 2023). From 2002 he is also Chair of Bioengineering Committee of the Engineer Order of Milano Province and even the coordinator of all the Italian Order Commissions in Biomedical Engineering. He has been the recipient of the “IEEE-EMBS Academic Career Achievement Award” (2009) and the “Milan Ambassador Award” (2010), respectively, for his scientific and organisational activites of promoting international scientific events and conferences.

He is the author of more than 990 international scientific contributions (Google Scholar), H-Index of 81 (y 2026) with more than 59,800 citations.

Professor in the Institute for Computational Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. She is currently a Professor in the Institute for Computational Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on the modelling, estimation, and control of neural systems, with particular emphasis on therapeutic electrical stimulation for neurological disorders, including epilepsy and chronic pain. She has been invited to speak at over 70 venues worldwide. Together with her undergraduate and graduate trainees, Dr. Sarma has authored over 80 journal articles, one book, two book chapters, and more than 90 peer-reviewed conference proceedings. She is an inventor on 11 patents and disclosures and has contributed to one FDA-cleared medical device. Dr. Sarma is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface, the Krishna Kumar New Investigator Award from the North American Neuromodulation Society, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the NIH Outstanding Investigator Award for her research in epilepsy, election as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the Whiting School of Engineering Robert B. Pond Award for Excellence in Teaching.